Leopardi in Italian is beutiful. Very hard to bring across in English.
Maybe Erminia knows a good translation of Il Sabato del Villagio?
At 07:29 PM 8/23/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>I bought the Carcanet translation of the Canti a few months ago
>and wasnt impressed very much. It left me wondering where Leopardi
>got his reputation from. (Leopardi is a poet who ought to appeal
>to me very much for obvious reasons.) Then a few weeks ago I
>bought Edwin Morgan's `Translations' and he had a little Leopardi
>in there. That was much more to my taste and I feel the Carcanet
>translator to be inadequate. I think Leopardi is my sort of poet.
>To be young and in love is marvellous and the rest of life quite
>dreadful. I am pleased that I felt the love in me so long into
>my fifties.
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